Anyone using a drip irrigation system to water your container planted fig trees.

Any advice for me. I am thinking of installing a system next year for my containers.

There's a lot of good information, including an installation guide, on the dripdepot website:

https://www.dripdepot.com/irrigation-education-classroom

How many pots are you trying to irrigate?
I have about 20 SIPs in a row on a timer hooked up to a faucet and I use the adjustable 1-10 gallons heads, one per pot.
The more pots/ heads you add the trickier it gets as the water pressure will eventually decrease.
I have another 20 Trees setup on the same faucet, but I use a double headed timer.

I actually made a video on this very subject almost two weeks ago:

Did not know about the feeding attachment. Have to look for it. Excellent video Ross.

Great job on this video, Ross. Some really good information. For the past two seasons, I have been using a drip irrigation system very similar to what Ross explained. I would like to add a few additional tips. My figs are potted in different size pots, ranging from one gallon to fifteen gallon. In order to keep them on the same line, I use adjustable emitters. That way larger pots can be adjusted for a greater water flow and smaller pots for less. I also recommend picking up a battery timer. You will be able to control when to water, how long to water and if you want to water everyday or every other day, ect.. I recent returned from a two week vacation and my trees were well taken of without any issues. Another tip is to water early in the day, as the sun can really heat up the water in the tubing. I mean really hot. Not good for the roots! I also have several of Bill's figs type of SIPs.I run a quarter inch tube down each water pipe and no emitters are needed. With a drip system I can water all the SIPs within four or five minutes. All you have to do is time how long it takes to fill all the reserviors.This can also be added to a separate timer or a two hose timer. Hope the tips help. One more comment. I also have been using the miracle go feeder system. Last year the unit leaked, and miracle gro replaced it. This year it totally failed after getting me thru most of the spring and summer. I really like the feeder system idea though and I am sure I will pick one up for next year. Just keep an eye on it.

Dave, I do the same - just one adjustable emitter per pots anywhere from 1 gallon to 20 gallons.  It will take a couple days to get the flow right but once you do then you are set.  Note that I use adjust able emitters for even the large pots rather than straight 1/4 inch tubing.  With my system, if I went with straight tubing, way too much water would be dispensed to even the large containers.

I also use emitters ,one gallon per hour. I have 300 / 7 gallon pots on one timer. I tested the amount of water I get from my fauset by simply testing how much water I got in 1 minute and doing some math I came up with around 450 gallons per hour, I also checked the first and last emitters and found results satisfactory. It definitely is very simple to install, important to keep everything as neat as possible to avoid tripping on tubes .

Cliff I am not sure about Steve or Sas, but I only water thru the tube. Every other day.

I am posting some photos I used earlier this year on the other forum showing some of my components. The next to last photo is current showing a summer's worth of growth. I know, next year I have to do a better job on spacing!

The pots show two emitters, however, I found that to be to much and turned one off.

I really don't know why folks don't search this forum before asking questions.  smh

Just search for the word irrigation" .  There is a whole lot of information out there!  Here are a few that I started, but so many others are posted their irrigation systems as well.  Again, try searching....it really does work!

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/a-sight-for-sore-eyes-6323330?highlight=irrigation&pid=1282126417

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/fig-orchard-irrigation-pics-5410087?highlight=irrigation&pid=1286924718

There is no way to answer this in a professional manner.
Tinyfish doesnt tell his zone, each zone has its
own water needs and one can easily under or over water.

Tinyfish In your zone it is much foregiving than the scorching sun of zone 10, it should be enough to use one emitter with 1 gph for 7-10 gal pots placed in the middle , dont get below that 1 gph since they get blocked pretty fast with mineral deposits.
Also do a test and check the water holding capability of your soil and if needed to be heavier amend with some compost.

I am living in an apartment with a big balcony and 150 pots of 10 galon size and never had a problem with pressure being too low, still there has to be a pressure regulator i think cause there are spikes in the city system which can cause your system to break down or leak.
Eli

"I am living in an apartment with a big balcony and 150 pots of 10 gallon size..."

Elin, those containers must weigh a lot!  I would be worried about the structural integrity of the balcony.

Re. Cliff's question - I have the emitters in the pipe rather than on the surface of the soil.  It probably would work well either way but my rationale was that on figs that had been in the container for a few months or more all the of the roots are configured to suck up water from the reservoir in the bottom rather than at the surface.  Then again, with watering at the surface, if you get the flow correct you would have some water going through from the soil surface to the lower reservoir anyway.